Film Catalogue - Nordisk Panorama

featured films

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Yes-People

Já-Fólkið

Gísli Darri Halldórsson

One morning, an eclectic mix of people face the daily grind: work, school and dish-washing. As the day progresses, relationships are tested and ultimately the capacity to cope. >

Gísli Darri Halldórsson

One morning, an eclectic mix of people face the daily grind: work, school and dish-washing. As the day progresses, relationships are tested and ultimately the capacity to cope. >

Fiction, Children/Youth, Animation

Iceland

2020

Wrong Direction

Kor faen blei det av Norge?

Signe Rosenlund-Hauglid

On a dark January evening in Oslo six young women decide to form a band. None of them know each other, but everyone knows Maria, a left-wing lesbian with shrill opinions. They play flute, fiddle, >

Signe Rosenlund-Hauglid

On a dark January evening in Oslo six young women decide to form a band. None of them know each other, but everyone knows Maria, a left-wing lesbian with shrill opinions. They play flute, fiddle, >

Documentary

Norway

2020

19'

What Is a Woman?

Hva er en kvinne?

Marin Håskjold

A transgender woman is asked to leave a women’s locker room. Someone says that if you are not born a woman you can’t become one. Tension rises as more people get involved. >

Marin Håskjold

A transgender woman is asked to leave a women’s locker room. Someone says that if you are not born a woman you can’t become one. Tension rises as more people get involved. >

Fiction

Norway

2020

14'

Wasteland

Skräpytan

Daniel Milton

Värmland is an inland Swedish province. An influential Stockholm professor of economics describes it as a place with no shopping, no entertainment, and no universities, offering nothing of value - a >

Daniel Milton

Documentary

Sweden

2020

20'

War in Academia

Ett akademiskt krig

Lisa Östberg

A class of university art students is given an unfair assignment by self-absorbed professors making conflict inevitable. The film has both reenacted and fictitious elements, using the classroom where >

Lisa Östberg

Fiction

Sweden

2019

27'

Villa Villekulla

Patricia Bbaale Bandak

The Bbaale siblings mix Danish traditions for food and games with Ugandan prayers, dances and songs. Play alternates with intimate discussion of trauma, pain, and the lack of adult supervision. >

Patricia Bbaale Bandak

The Bbaale siblings mix Danish traditions for food and games with Ugandan prayers, dances and songs. Play alternates with intimate discussion of trauma, pain, and the lack of adult supervision. >

Documentary

Denmark

2019

30'

Trick or Treat

Knask eller knep

Morten Hølmebakk Evelid

Eleven-year-old Magda is a black metal fan. She is not like the other girls, so when Halloween comes, she has no one to go trick or treating with. She lives with her Polish father and her 16-year-old >

Morten Hølmebakk Evelid

Fiction, Children/Youth

Norway

2020

17'

Thinking About The Weather

Gardar Thor Thorkelson

Anxieties about the looming climate apocalypse drive the filmmaker on a journey to the shores of Great Britain and back. The journey takes him to flat strip of sand in the Orkney Islands, to a >

Gardar Thor Thorkelson

Anxieties about the looming climate apocalypse drive the filmmaker on a journey to the shores of Great Britain and back. The journey takes him to flat strip of sand in the Orkney Islands, to a >

Documentary

2020

22'

The Sun Is 5500 Degrees

Solen är 5500 grader

Engeli Broberg

Edvina (8) - a shy and quiet child - is bullied at school. When her dad comes home with a smart speaker, this machine, to which she can ask all sorts of questions, becomes her first friend. But the >

Engeli Broberg

Edvina (8) - a shy and quiet child - is bullied at school. When her dad comes home with a smart speaker, this machine, to which she can ask all sorts of questions, becomes her first friend. But the >

Fiction

Sweden

2019

11'

The Substitute Teacher

Vikarien

Anna Brodin

A substitute teacher attempts to teach a class of 7th graders in a Swedish school. The class gives her a hard time, provoking her until she screams in rage. >

Anna Brodin

A substitute teacher attempts to teach a class of 7th graders in a Swedish school. The class gives her a hard time, provoking her until she screams in rage. >

Fiction, Children/Youth

Sweden

2020

14'

The Painter and The Thief

Kunstneren og tyven

Benjamin Ree

An artist befriends the thief who stole her paintings and makes him her muse. She becomes his closest support when he is severely hurt in a car crash and needs full time care, even if her paintings >

Benjamin Ree

An artist befriends the thief who stole her paintings and makes him her muse. She becomes his closest support when he is severely hurt in a car crash and needs full time care, even if her paintings >

Documentary

Norway

2020

103'

The Nannies

Barnepigerne

Signe Barvild Stæhr

When filmmaker Signe B. Stæhr was just five years-old her mother died unexpectedly in the middle of the night. Signe remembers little from that time in the late 1980s and her father doesn't like to >

Signe Barvild Stæhr

Documentary, Children/Youth, Experimental

Denmark

2020

22'

The Man and the Head

Manden og Hovedet

Nilas Røpke Driessen

A little man builds a house on a giant floating head. The man and the head develop a friendship, chat about their day and try to figure out what to do with their lives. >

Nilas Røpke Driessen

A little man builds a house on a giant floating head. The man and the head develop a friendship, chat about their day and try to figure out what to do with their lives. >

Animation

Denmark

2020

The Last Day

Viimeinen päivä

Lauri-Matti Parppei

Two lovers living in separate countries spend their last day together, having sex and eating. A musical melodrama accompanied by Orthodox Christian choir music. >

Lauri-Matti Parppei

Two lovers living in separate countries spend their last day together, having sex and eating. A musical melodrama accompanied by Orthodox Christian choir music. >

Fiction

Finland
Sweden

2019

17'

The Last Autumn

Síðasta haustið

Yrsa Roca Fannberg

More than a thousand autumns ago, humans arrived with their animals in a land squished up against the Arctic Ocean. Autumns came and autumns went. Where the road ends, Úlfar, the last in a long line >

Yrsa Roca Fannberg

Documentary

Iceland

2019

79'

The Kicksled Choir

Sparkekoret

Torfinn Iversen

Ten-year-old Gabriel loves to sing and badly wants to join the local kicksled Choir. The group rides kicksleds through the snowy landscape of northern Norway and is known for kindness and charity >

Torfinn Iversen

Ten-year-old Gabriel loves to sing and badly wants to join the local kicksled Choir. The group rides kicksleds through the snowy landscape of northern Norway and is known for kindness and charity >

Fiction, Children/Youth

Norway

2020

18'

The Cave

Feras Fayyad

Director Feras Fayyad (Last Men in Aleppo) returns to his native war-torn Syria to follow a dedicated team of female doctors who tirelessly treat casualties in an underground hospital while battling >

Feras Fayyad

Documentary

Denmark
USA

2019

107'

The Affected

De Berørte

Rikke Gregersen

Minutes before take off a situation occurs that prevents an airplane from departing. A passenger refuses to sit down. She is attempting to prevent the deportation of a man in the plane. The pilot has >

Rikke Gregersen

Fiction

Norway

2020

13'

Talking With the Dead

Parler Avec Les Morts

Taina Tervonen

The road follows the river down the canyon, up a mountain, and through a silent valley covered with snow. Every day, Darija Vujinovic drives hundreds of kilometres in her small blue Ford Fiesta, from >

Taina Tervonen

Documentary

France

2020

67'

Swimmer

Badaren

Jonatan Etzler

A man is floating in an indoor swimming pool. The police order him out but the man refuses. A humorous short film about a dramatic arrest ending in anticlimax. >

Jonatan Etzler

A man is floating in an indoor swimming pool. The police order him out but the man refuses. A humorous short film about a dramatic arrest ending in anticlimax. >

Fiction

Sweden

2020

13'

Still Into You

Lauluja Rakkaudesta

Anu Kuivalainen

Five different couples create an image of old age and love with all its different facets. An elderly actress's love songs link the stories of 70–85-year-old couples. New lovebirds combine karaoke, >

Anu Kuivalainen

Documentary

Finland

2020

71'

Songs of Repression

Undertrykkelsens sang

Estephan Wagner, Marianne Hougen-Moraga

At the foot of the Andes Mountains in Chile lies an idyllic German colony called Villa Baviera (Bavarian Village). But the beauty hides a grim past - traumatic years of abuse, religious fanaticism >

Estephan Wagner, Marianne Hougen-Moraga

At the foot of the Andes Mountains in Chile lies an idyllic German colony called Villa Baviera (Bavarian Village). But the beauty hides a grim past - traumatic years of abuse, religious fanaticism >

Documentary

Denmark
Netherlands

2020

89'

Something to Remember

Något att minnas

Niki Lindroth von Bahr

A lullaby before the great disaster. Two pigeons visit a zoo without animals; a snail has a doctor measure his blood pressure; and something goes terribly wrong at the CERN laboratory. Six moments >

Niki Lindroth von Bahr

A lullaby before the great disaster. Two pigeons visit a zoo without animals; a snail has a doctor measure his blood pressure; and something goes terribly wrong at the CERN laboratory. Six moments >

Animation

Sweden

2019

Rumpa

Elisabeth Matheson

Fifteen-year-old Pauline commits social suicide in front of her entire class and her biggest idol, the film actor Ingvar Lykke, when she accidentally posts a private photo. But instead of dying of >

Elisabeth Matheson

Fifteen-year-old Pauline commits social suicide in front of her entire class and her biggest idol, the film actor Ingvar Lykke, when she accidentally posts a private photo. But instead of dying of >

Fiction, Children/Youth

Norway

2020

14'

Popcorn Boy

Popcorngutten

Christian Lo, Line Klungseth Johansen

All resources must end sometime. >

Christian Lo, Line Klungseth Johansen

All resources must end sometime. >

Fiction, Children/Youth

Norway

2020

12'

latest films

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The Fantastic

Maija Blåfield

Encountering the unknown and the relationship between imagination and reality. The film is built on interviews with exiled North Koreans, who describe what they imagined the outside world to be like, >

Maija Blåfield

Documentary, Experimental

Finland

2020

31'

The Bouncer

Poke

Aleksi Salmenperä

A night club bouncer gets disgusted of all the violence and repression of the weak he is seeing. He has to act to protect the victims. >

Aleksi Salmenperä

A night club bouncer gets disgusted of all the violence and repression of the weak he is seeing. He has to act to protect the victims. >

Fiction

Finland

2020

11'

Quarantine Friend

Karantenevenn

Jannicke Systad Jacobsen

In March 2020 the filmmaker sits quarantined in her apartment. From her breakfast table she notices a fearless, elderly woman passing her window every morning at the same hour. One day she is gone. >

Jannicke Systad Jacobsen

In March 2020 the filmmaker sits quarantined in her apartment. From her breakfast table she notices a fearless, elderly woman passing her window every morning at the same hour. One day she is gone. >

Documentary, Experimental

Norway

2020

OsWorld

Philip Hedegaard Povlsen

Oswald earns his living by making videos, for his channel 'OsWorld', on the video sharing platform, 'MeTube'. The constant demand from his growing audience and insatiable ambition drives him forward. >

Philip Hedegaard Povlsen

Fiction

Denmark

2019

30'

Orgiastic Hyper-Plastic

Paul Bush

Colorful, cheap and malleable this is the material of our childhood toys and the most advanced mechanism of mankind. This film is an elegy to a love that turned sour. It is the almost goodbye of the >

Paul Bush

Animation, Experimental

Denmark
UK

2020

Liquid Crystal Effects

Timo Menke

Liquid Crystals serve as both material, medium and method – the critical lens through which I investigated the former Långban mining and cultural village in Eastern Värmland in Sweden. Liquid >

Timo Menke

Liquid Crystals serve as both material, medium and method – the critical lens through which I investigated the former Långban mining and cultural village in Eastern Värmland in Sweden. Liquid >

Documentary, Experimental

Sweden

2019

40'

In The Blink Of An Eye

Uden At Blinke

Katrine Brocks

Recently discharged after a longer admission to a psychiatric hospital, Johanne is excited as she is on her way to see her daughter Lily. Eager to prove that she is fit to be a mother again, she >

Katrine Brocks

Recently discharged after a longer admission to a psychiatric hospital, Johanne is excited as she is on her way to see her daughter Lily. Eager to prove that she is fit to be a mother again, she >

Fiction

Denmark

2020

22'

Fence

Hegn

Hilke Rönnfeldt

Just another morning. She has had a dream and tells her girlfriend about it: It was about pigs and a fence. A fence between two countries and two different kinds of pigs. They’ve both heard about >

Hilke Rönnfeldt

Just another morning. She has had a dream and tells her girlfriend about it: It was about pigs and a fence. A fence between two countries and two different kinds of pigs. They’ve both heard about >

Fiction

Denmark

2020

12'

Bonaparte

Jesper Quistgaard

A woman has been sent home as a result of the COVID-19 crisis. For most people this might not be all that bad, but when you are living in a violent relationship and your partner has just been fired, >

Jesper Quistgaard

Fiction

Denmark

2020

13'

Battlemind

David Silset

A close up of the mindset of an ex-soldier shot down by PTSD syndrome. A montage and fragmented portrayal of how crippling and claustrophobic life can be, while coping with the trials of mental >

David Silset

A close up of the mindset of an ex-soldier shot down by PTSD syndrome. A montage and fragmented portrayal of how crippling and claustrophobic life can be, while coping with the trials of mental >

Fiction

Denmark

2020